David Dilin - Picture Generation lyrics

[Verse 1: David Dilin] I remember back when pictures didn't matter I could write a thousand words Now I all I picture is pictures Taking over nouns and verbs If flicks turn into sentences We're finished as a human race We'll just look back at polaroids To chat about the youthful days Back when we used to write about What we went through that day Back when we used to say Anything at all Now all we uh, uh, utter are just stutters And we slip on words like bu*ter Cause our brains don't have no words they can recall If pics are worth a thousand words Then why aren't we all writers? We just take flicks with cameras And write on where the white is What the date and time is And all that's left is memories That one day we'd remember If we took time to describe it Then if we meet writers We can shake hands with date stamps And hope they took a picture With the artificial man You can post on instagram For your artificial fam And they'll reply with pictures Cause they're not people, they're webcams [Verse 2: David Dilin] The picture generation is taking over Slouching behind computer screens We're losing our composure Being driven by images depicting which is which And it's easy cause it's the media We hired as our chauffeur Quick to put your face on instagram of vacation Problems you can't face so you miss the ramifications A like is quick to bring you your instant gratification Twenty-five minutes of fame will be the reason You pop a blood vessel for heart throb Privacy's taken, you awake and your heart drops See your face lacing an ad on hot cardstock They own you Take a good look at consequences thrust upon you Take a proper gander at the propaganda 'fore you hand your life to good lawyers and their proper grammar Stop to grab a breath to blow on the big picture They're generating you It all start with a thousand words on paper [Outro: Grayson] Researchers from Harvard University Recently found that many people now use the internet In place of a memory. They claim that when someone Wants to know something, they now use the internet As an external memory, just as computers use an external drive The study continued that we are now so reliant On smart phones and laptops, we go into withdrawal When we can't find out something immediately This is the Picture Generation